why will people vote for a candidate who cannot even be faithful to there partners or who do not even know how to fix a marriage let alone a whole nation ?
2007-12-09 04:39:50 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
If you can't run your own house, I don't want you running mine.
It wouldn't surprise me if in the event he were to get elected, he got another divorce while in the White House.
Oh, and Blue, he's on number 3. At this point, cheating on your wife and divorce is endemic. He's done it before, he will do it again.
2007-12-09 05:44:32 · answer #1 · answered by Jam_Til_Impact 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
We are a nation of Christian holier than thou BS artists.. a politicians personal life is no real indication of how he can do his job.
I couldnt care less if a guy cant hold a wife or if he is unfaithful... Id care WAY more if the guy never paid his credit card or mortgage on time, and was in debt... cause this shows a possible correlation to something he would have to deal with in office... far as I know the President doesn't have to go around marrying women as part of his job description, so who cares what his past with marriages was like.
But , if you wanna know my vote... it's like the above poster wrote= Ron Paul, 50 years of Marriage!
2007-12-09 12:50:00 · answer #2 · answered by Peter Griffin 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
That's actually a fairly recent situation, on the scale of U.S. history. Nelson Rockefeller was able to be elected governor of New York, but his campaigns for the Presidency were severely impaired by voter rejection of anyone who had divorced and remarried. That was in the 1960s.
Ronald Reagan broke a similar barrier, on the other coast as Governor of California and eventually as President. He probably represents the point at which it became a non-issue for most of the country.
A huge proportion of prominent politicians, especially (it seems to me) Republican males, appear to have "traded up" spouses at least once.
Messy divorces can still be a problem. Newt Gingrich reportedly pressured his wife for a signature on divorce papers when she was dying, because he was in a rush to remarry. Rudy Giuliani had a major public conflict with his most recent ex-wife over who got to remain in residence at the Governor's mansion. When it spills over into public life, people notice.
There were, of course, plenty of personal-life scandals prior to the new acceptance of divorce. Andrew Jackson apparently accidentally married his wife before her divorce from a previous husband was final. (They remarried once it was finalized.)
And Grover Cleveland had a child-out-of-wedlock scandal during his first campaign, resulting (after he won anyway) in an expansion of a campaign slogan into "Ma, ma, where's my pa? Gone to the White House, ha, ha, ha!" (He may not have been the father, although he paid child support. He may have done so only because he was the only bachelor on the list of possible fathers.)
Getting back to the main question, I might well factor in my assessment of a candidate's personal life, especially as the candidates seem anxious to avoid displaying any other evidence of their character in public.
On the other hand, I have some reservations about the reference to "controlling" a marriage. Those of us who have remained in marriages for a long time tend not to think of "control" as having anything to do with their stability. "The way to handle a woman / is to love her..."
2007-12-09 13:07:14 · answer #3 · answered by Samwise 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
because no one knows the extenuating circumstances behind it, personal life and religion shouldnt have anything to do w/ anything. People have affairs. its been going on since the dawn of time. it doesnt make them a bad person all around, it just means they treated one person poorly, at one time. "Oh, he cheated on his wife, he wont be able to stop illegal immigration". Huh? "Oh, he smoked a joint in high school, the war s going to continue for 20 years now" What? people make mistakes. And thats all they are, people. Im sure everyone has done somethign they arent proud of, but it isnt fair to have that one act reflect on every single thing they do from there on out.
2007-12-09 13:40:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well that's Giuliani for you.
Fixing a whole nation is easier than fixing a marriage. Ask anybody here.
2007-12-09 12:47:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Are you married? Does your husband "control" your marriage?
I presume you're talking about Giuliani. I don't know what inside information you have about his personal life, beyond what you may have read in the tabloids.
That said, Bill Clinton got elected twice. So there's your answer.
Vote for Rudy!
2007-12-09 14:04:03 · answer #6 · answered by Rick K 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
She's handled the mess pretty well. All the conservative Republican wives just hide these kind of scandals really well. For the scandal to be on the front page and television all over the world, and she was still able to repair a 30 year marriage and still keep her dignity in tact, I give her props!
2007-12-09 12:47:57 · answer #7 · answered by Eisbär 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Yes
2007-12-09 12:43:09 · answer #8 · answered by wind champ 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Obviously, a good marriage is not a prerequisite for being president.
2007-12-09 12:49:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Relationships are hard to control - not everybody can do it.
2007-12-09 12:43:15 · answer #10 · answered by s.omner 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋